Mission Statement

In classical sacrifices, the people get the good bits, and the gods get the refuse, the bits that would get thrown out otherwise.

Not our God. Leviticus (particularly Leviticus 3) describes the sacrifices that our LORD demanded from His people of Israel. God gets the kidneys, the tail, and all the fat. He gets the prime steak, He gets the best.

Today we do not literally give sacrifices of animals. For us the ultimate sacrifice has been made through our Lord, Christ Jesus. But should always be our ambition to do the same thing - to offer God the best of what we have, to offer Him the fat, and not the smoke and bones.

Saturday, 13 April 2013

Day Fifteen Part One: Wednesday 27.06.2012

I went to the school and went to P3, one of the classes I hadn’t been to yet.About halfway through the class, Richard came to get me.I was to have some tea and some “bites” and then we were going to the landslides – today rather than tomorrow.We ate, then everyone piled into the van and we set off to Bududa.

It was an extremely bumpy and difficult road.Ignatius said he thought we didn’t have roads like this.We told him there were some that were even worse – where when it rains, you abandon your car because it isn’t going anywhere.He was surprised.

It took longer than we expected to get to the area, due to the increased traffic to the region, and the conditions of the roads.When we got there, it was pretty bad.

18-20 houses were buried – each with an estimated 2 people, mostly women and small children, as the slide happened around 2PM, when the men are at market and the older children are at school.So there are around 40 casualties, although the exact number is not in.Many other houses have been damaged, destroyed, or are at risk of future landslides, so the biggest problem now is homelessness.They can’t set up a camp in the region as there has been a cholera epidemic that is just slowing down, and a camp would see a massive resurgence in that.In the mean time, the people affected have to fend for themselves as best they can – including many new orphans and distraught family members.

This is the 4th slide in the area in recent years.The first slide killed over 450 people, the last to this 96.They are caused mostly by erosion due to deforestation of the area.Another 500 homes are deemed to be at immediate risk.

Later that day we watched a bit of the news, and one of the government ministers was advising that the government wait and let the people resettle themselves in other regions (most people in the area will need to move)… i.e. do nothing.Apparently, those who have lost everything, including family members and friends, have the finances to resettle themselves.

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About Me

I'm 28 years old, I'm a born-again Christian, and currently work as a childcare worker.
I'm a Pentacostal, meaning I believe in the active power of the Holy Spirit in the world; and I'm a Quiverfull Christian, meaning that I believe that children are a blessing from God - and why would you want to limit blessings?
I'm interested in a whole lot of things, including drawing, knitting, and reading (which I do a lot of!).